I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.~Baruch Spinoza

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True virtue is life under the direction of reason.~Baruch Spinoza

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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.~Baruch Spinoza

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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.~Baruch Spinoza

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.~Baruch Spinoza

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He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~Baruch Spinoza

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The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.~Baruch Spinoza

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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.~Baruch Spinoza

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I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.~Baruch Spinoza

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Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.~Baruch Spinoza

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Desire is the essence of a man.~Baruch Spinoza

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I call him free who is led solely by reason.~Baruch Spinoza

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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.~Baruch Spinoza

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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.~Baruch Spinoza